| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 215 pages) : illustrations |
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Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
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Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
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| Contents |
Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Housing Crisis: Home andIdentity in Nineteenth-Century Literary London -- Part I: Structures of Authority: The Model Dwellings Movement -- 2. 'Out of its torpid misery': Plotting Passivity in Margaret Harkness's A City Girl -- 3. 'More making the best of it': Living with Liberalism in Mary Ward's Marcella -- 4. Labour Leaders and Socialist Saviours: Individualism and Collectivism in Margaret Harkness's George Eastmont, Wanderer -- Part II: Chambers, Lodgings and Flats: Purpose-built Housing for Working Women |
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5. Irritating Rules and Oppressive Officials: Convention and Innovation in Evelyn Sharp's The Making of a Prig -- 6. The Kailyard Comes to London: The Progressive Potential of Romantic Convention in Annie S. Swan's A Victory Won -- 7. Fugitive Living: Social Mobility and Domestic Space in Julia Frankau's The Heart of a Child -- Part III: 'Thinking Men' and Thinking Women: Gender, Sexuality and Settlement Housing -- 8. 'Vital friendship': Sexual and Economic Ambivalence in Rhoda Broughton's Dear Faustina |
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9. 'Twenty girls in my attic': Spatial and Spiritual Conversion in L. T. Meade's A Princess of the Gutter -- Part IV: Homes for a New Era: London Housing Past and Present -- 10. 'To make a garden of the town': The Nineteenth-Century Legacy ofthe Hampstead Garden Suburb -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This book brings together a range of new models for modern living that emerged in response to social and economic changes in nineteenth-century London, and the literature that gave expression to their novelty. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access |
Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK). WlAbNL |
| Terms Of Use |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
English literature -- England -- London -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Home in literature.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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Dwellings -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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London (England) -- In literature.
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London (England) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Dwellings |
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English literature |
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Home in literature |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature |
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Literature |
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Manners and customs |
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England https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpYDdYvBpjXV6WpybK68C |
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England -- London https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJp68ckpMtKGHPFWQrwDMP |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1474457886 9781474457880 (OCoLC)1117551830 |
| ISBN |
9781474457903 (electronic bk.) |
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1474457908 (electronic bk.) |
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1474457886 |
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9781474457880 |
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9781474457910 (Electronic book (EPUB format)) |
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1474457916 |
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9781474490818 (electronic bk.) |
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1474490816 (electronic bk.) |
